Showing papers in "International Journal of Food Microbiology in 2009"

TL;DR: In this review improvements in water disinfection and sanitation strategies, including a shower pre-washing step and a final rinse of the produce, are suggested.

TL;DR: The 80% methanolic extract of peels (WME) was a potent inhibitor for Listeria monocytogenes, S. aureus, Escherichia coli and Yersinia enterocolitica and the activity of WME was related to its higher content of total phenolics, including phenolics and flavonoids.

TL;DR: A complete and updated overview of the current knowledge among LAB and food phenolics interaction, which could facilitate the possible application of selected bacteria or their enzymes in the elaboration of food products with improved characteristics is given.

TL;DR: The usefulness of foodborne outbreak data extracted from publicly available international electronic reports and publications to provide estimates of food attribution is explored, to derive and compare these estimates between regions, while improving the understanding of the pathogen/food vehicle combination.

TL;DR: At present the high prevalence of MRSA in meat has not been shown to contribute significantly to the dissemination ofMRSA to humans and the possible health hazard for consumers of the presence of MR SA in foods should be further elucidated.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that CRISPR loci have been subjected to horizontal gene transfer and further evolved independently in select lineages, in part due to selective pressure resulting from phage predation.

TL;DR: The enzymatic degradation of aflatoxin B(1) by white rot fungi through laccase production was investigated in different liquid media and could be an important bio-control measure to reduce the level of this mycotoxin in food commodities.

TL;DR: Microcapsule curcumin remains in antibacterial and antifungal activities after microencapsulation, which can be potential colorant and preservative in food industry.

TL;DR: Preliminary work showed that whey proteins are a convenient, cheap and efficient material for coating alginate beads loaded with bacteria.

TL;DR: Chlorine (200 ppm), TriNova, Sanova, and acidic electrolyzed water were all equally effective against E. coli O157:H7 on Romaine, with log reductions of approximately 1 log CFU/g.

TL;DR: Hydroxycinnamic acids induce greater ion leakages and higher proton influx than hydroxybenzoic acids, while p-coumaric acid showed the strongest effect and the exposure of cells to phenolic acids caused a significant decrease in cell culture viability.

TL;DR: The findings of this study indicate that SAEW may be a promising disinfectant agent for the shell egg washing processing without environmental pollution.

TL;DR: A comparative overview of models developed in the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany is provided and it is aims to identify differences and similarities of these existing models.

TL;DR: This study shows that L. monocytogenes strains from food and food-processing environments are susceptible to the antibiotics commonly used in veterinary and human listeriosis treatment, and a continued surveillance of emerging antimicrobial resistance of this pathogen is important to ensure effective treatment of human listersiosis.

TL;DR: The results suggest that black raspberry juice can be GABA enriched using lactic acid bacteria.

TL;DR: This is the first time that predictive models are used to assess and compare the response of a hybrid strain with respect to its parental species and the information obtained could be useful to estimate the possible effect of climatic change on yeast growth.

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TL;DR: This review provides an up-to-date look at the current hypotheses of the mechanisms involved in the inhibition of S. aureus by LAB in both the vaginal ecosystem and in fermented food ecosystems and emphasizes that post-genomic approaches can now be envisioned in order to study these diverse and complex interactions at the molecular level.

TL;DR: The nested PCR-DGGE technique was used for the first time in this study to asses a microbial community in doenjang and proved to be effective in profiling microbial diversity.

TL;DR: It is postulated that AIT is a more effective antimicrobial at low pH values and its degradation reduces this activity; decomposition products in water might not participate in the antimicrobial action of AIT; and AIT seems to have a multi-targeted mechanism of action, perhaps inhibiting several metabolic pathways and damaging cellular structures.

TL;DR: Results show that the consumption of the coffee preparation resulting from water co-extraction of green and roasted coffee beans produce an increase in the metabolic activity and/or numbers of the Bifidobacterium spp.

TL;DR: Results obtained show that chlorine and Tsunami are recommended as water disinfection agents preventing E. coli cross-contamination of produce during processing.

TL;DR: The results suggest that foodborne illness in the U.S. due to B. cereus with rice as the vehicle would be most likely associated with the diarrheal-type syndrome.

TL;DR: This study characterized 95 enterococci isolated from 3 different goats' milk cheeses, belonging to the species Enterococcus devriesei,Enterococcus faecalis and E. malodoratus, among others, and found that the genotypes tended to be specific to particular cheeses; only two of the different cheeses contained two genotypes.

TL;DR: These results show robust associations of particular genotypes with potential infection sources supporting the contention that contaminated poultry is a major source of human disease.

TL;DR: Fermented milk quality was strongly influenced both by the co-culture composition and the selected prebiotic, and the contents of the main fatty acids were only barely influenced, the highest amounts of conjugated linoleic acid were found in milk fermented by S. thermophilus-L.

TL;DR: The adaptability of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts to sourdoughs prepared from cereals, pseudocereals and cassava was investigated using PCR-DGGE and bacteriological culture combined with rRNA gene sequence analysis to assess the usefulness of competitive LAB andYeasts as starters.

TL;DR: A polyphasic approach consisting of morphological, chemical and molecular characterization was applied to 31 isolates of Aspergillus Section Flavi originating from Portuguese almonds, with the aim of characterizing and identifying aflatoxigenic and non-aflatoxinigenic strains.

TL;DR: It is indicated that viruses persist well on chilled, acidified, frozen foods and foods packed under modified atmosphere or in dried conditions, and intervention strategies inducing microbial inactivation are required to achieve a 3 log reduction of the level of viruses.

TL;DR: These experiments confirmed the low volatile acidity and glycerol production of this species and revealed a difference in osmotic stress response, compared to Saccharomyces cerevisiae.